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Meet the Gamers Who Earned Half a Million Playing Video Games

Posted on the 30 May 2014 by Nrjperera @nrjperera

As you may already know, while we just play games for fun, there are some folks who play video games for money. These are the top players in the world who has earned close to half a million US dollars by just playing video games.

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Lee ‘Jaedong’ Jae Dong ranks at No:1 spot by earning $519,086 from 52 tournaments, he’s an expert in Star Craft series. At No:2 we have Danil ‘Dendi’ Ishutin he’s scored $455,615 from 43 tournaments, mostly DOTA. Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel ranks at No:3 earning $454,919.23 from 36 tournaments. DOTA 2 expert Oleksandr ‘XBOCT’ Dashkevych has earned $453,311.74 from 41 tournaments. And at No:5 we have Jang ‘MC’ Min Chul, StarCraft 2 who scored $452,926.25 from 78 tournaments.

Hit the source link for info about more badass gamers.

[Via: BUSINESS INSIDER/ Source: E-SPORTS]
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